Bingowings said:
We are still talking about them in the context of rendering them into something other (and hopefully better) than the manner which you describe (which most of us also recognise and agree with you about).
Yes it is a long thread and for me to précis the ideas on it would make for a huge post all on it's own. If you set out and paced yourself you could get through it in a reasonable amount of time.
Some of the aspects of the films you point out (like Dooku's name) are almost impossible to get around as they are so deeply embedded in the dialogue uttered during key scenes, though I would be very interested in any suggestions you have for getting around such obstacles and what you would replace them with.
Some edits like JasonN's have reduced Dooku's cartoonish moves down to a minimum (the aim being to make him not a Sith Lord but a Jedi who is making a stand against a compromised Senate, a forerunner of the Rebellion of the OT).
There have been many suggestions regarding how to make the Gungans less ridiculous (even how to remove them all together) and to give the Trade Federation different motives and different voices and to make Grievous more sinister or even an anti-hero of sorts via re-dubbing and altering his appearance.
To some extent we are stuck with some of the elements of the PT (unless someone can figure out a way to make the films from scratch) but there are a lot of different methods of reconstructing the elements already there so they do make more sense and fit better into the universe we saw in the original films.
Actually, somehow I just totally misunderstood the point of this post. I didn't realize you were still trying to edit these movies, I thought it was ideas just for re-writing them. I apologize.
Is there a thread about that? I mean totally just what if we could re-write these things? Or anyone know of a site, or someone who has done it? I have a lot of ideas what would just be fun to discuss.
By the way, I vote for the Jedi lightsabers being all blue. =) They were actually always supposed to be that way. The only reason Luke's was green was because the blue didn't show up well against the background of the blue sky when Luke was on Tatooine (it was blue in the trailers too). Personally, I find that in the prequels all the colors are so distracting, it's so hard to even tell what's going on, Lucas just tries to cram as much shit as he can in each shot. Plus it just seems lame that the Jedi love their rainbow colors and then the Sith only have red. It should be just that each order has their own color. I always thought about Luke's green signifying a new era.